A conference speaker and counselor at her church in Southern California. She is a proponent of nouthetic counseling and is a co-author of Will Medicine Stop the Pain?: Finding God’s Healing for Depression, Anxiety & Other Troubling Emotions. Contact through her website.

Sally Barlow is a psychology professor at Brigham Young University. She co-authored a chapter on religion and mental health from the Mormon perspective for the Handbook of Religion and Mental Health.

President of Bright Tomorrows, an interdenominational Christian nonprofit in Tulsa, Okla., that works to educate faith communities about mental illness and provide support to people dealing with  mental health issues. Reside is an ordained minister who has dealt with bipolar disorder for many years. His wife, Nancy, is the group’s secretary-treasurer.

Rabbi Michael R. Zedek is rabbi emeritus of Emanuel Congregation in Chicago. He wrote a chapter on religion and mental health from the Jewish perspective for the Handbook of Religion and Mental Health.

National Survey of Families and Households provides resources on family life, relationships and environments across many disciplinary perspectives.

Editor at Christianity Today and the author of Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission (March 2013). She writes from the experience of having a mother with schizophrenia. Simpson lives in Illinois. Contact through her blog.

President of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, a professional organization based in Batavia, Ill.

John Piper served for more than three decades as senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis and is now chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary. His many books include When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God — and Joy.

Dr. Syed Arshad Husain is professor of psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. Husain wrote a chapter on religion and mental health from the Muslim perspective for the Handbook of Religion and Mental Health.